HMS Triumph (N18)
Service
- as Triumph2 May 1939 — December 1941849 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Triumph
- Pennant / hull number
- N18
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
- Laid down
- 19 March 1937
- Launched
- 16 February 1938
- Commissioned
- 2 May 1939
- Fate
- Sank December 1941–January 1942 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,090 long tons (1,107 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,575 long tons (1,600 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.97 m (16.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15.3 knots (28.2 km/h, 17.5 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 64
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Triumph was a British T class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N18. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow laid her keel on 19 March 1937. Launched on 16 February 1938, she entered service on 2 May 1939.
Her class ran to 52 ships. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,090 long tons surfaced and 1,575 long tons submerged. She measured 83.8 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 15.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 64. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 849 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk in December 1941. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two shafts
- Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
- Armament
- 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
- 4 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- 1 x 4 inch deck gun
Sister ships
- HMS Tabard
- HMS Taciturn
- HMS Tactician (P314)
- HMS Taku (N38)
- HMS Talent (P322)
- HMS Talent (P337)
- HMS Talisman (N78)
- HMS Tally-Ho
- HMS Tantalus
- HMS Tantivy
- HMS Tarn (P336)
- HMS Tarpon (N17)
- HMS Taurus (P339)
- HMS Telemachus (P321)
- HMS Tempest (N86)
- HMS Templar
- HMS Teredo
- HMS Terrapin
- HMS Tetrarch (N77)
- HMS Thermopylae
- HMS Thetis (N25)
- HMS Thistle (N24)
- HMS Thorn (N11)
- HMS Thorough
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Triumph (N18) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5477 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons